In most of the northern hemisphere, the middle of June is perfect pool weather. It’s hot, but not suffocatingly hot like it can be in July, August, and September. Also, it’s close enough to the end of winter that everyone is still excited about getting out into the sun.
Today’s theme is thus Tik Tok girls posing next to pools. But more on that later…
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Sprots News
In a little less than 4 hours, we will have the Brisbane Lions taking on the Fremantle Dockers from their home stadium of The Gabba in beautiful and sunny Queensland. The game will be shown live and in colour on Fox Sports 2 in the United States starting at 8:30 PM Pacific.
It will be followed at 11:30 PM Pacific time by Carlton Blues v Melbourne Demons live and in colour on TSN4.
Of course, every game is available on the Watch AFL app that comes with your International Member status, if you have become a member of an AFL club. You can also get the Watch AFL separately. It’s relatively inexpensive considering you get every single AFL game, replays, and Fox Footy programming direct from Australia.
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Without further ado, here are this week’s dirty dirty Tik Tok girls. Enjoy:
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And now, the next episode of our new feature!
As I mentioned before, I’ve decided that I must take up the mantle that tWBS ran with and help to make this world a better place. I will do this in the one way he couldn’t: By introducing you to good music!
My aim each week will be to showcase a tune or band from the 80s (the best decade EVAR!) that not many people know about or have heard of. In this way, hopefully these artists will find new audiences and the old audiences can reminisce about what they were doing in the 80s.
Today’s band could be considered as one of the original One-Hit Wonders. However, there was more to them, as you’ll discover shortly.
They were from Birmingham and released their first album in 1983. I was still in middle school then and I was fully embracing the new wave sounds coming from the UK. The first (and only) song of theirs that was played on the radio (KROQ here in LA and a handful of stations around North America that played new wave back then) was “The Politics of Dancing”.
The band, of course, was Re-Flex:
The Politics of Dancing was the only song that got massive airplay in the US. However, the band’s debut album, also called The Politics of Dancing, was full of danceable new wave songs much like their top hit. Amongst them was “Hurt”:
And “Keep In Touch”:
The band enjoyed worldwide success with the single for “The Politics of Dancing” and good success in the UK for the album. They followed up this success with a second album titled “Humanication”.
Unfortunately, the band’s American record company, EMI, thought the album was “too political” and refused to release it. One of those “political songs” on that album was “How Much Longer”. It’s funny and ironic how the lyrics from 1986 are very appropriate for today’s times:
The party on the left is the party on the right
If there ain’t no choice, then there ain’t no fight
The pride of the west is the shame of the east
There’s too much ego and not enough to eat
They read between the words, they read between the lines
They see everything, but they can’t see that they’re blind
You talk about this and they talk about that
But talk is talk and facts are facts
Sit down, sit up, it’s your situation
What we want is participation
Sit down, sit up, it’s your situation
What we need is participation
Get behind me
Come on, get behind me
How much longer must we wait
For you to realize
We have got to put things straight
‘Cause we’re running out of time
The leaders of the world should hide their heads in shame
From cabinet to cabaret, it’s the price of fame
There’s pollution in the air, pollution in our minds
But what we all want is to get some piece of mind
We’re stuck to our TVs, we’re glued to our seats
We like to watch the news ’cause we’re addict for repeats
So put your money where your mouth is put your fingers in the sockets
Wipe that smile off your face and take your hands out your pockets
Sit down, sit up, it’s your situation
What we want is participation
Sit down, sit up, it’s your situation
What we need is participation
Get behind me
Come on, get, get, get behind me
How much longer must we wait
For you to realize
We have got to put things straight
‘Cause we’re running out of time
How much longer must we wait
For you to realize
We have got to put things straight
‘Cause we’re running out of time
It don’t matter
No, it don’t matter to me
But if no one cares then I despair
We will drown in our apathy
Say what you will
And say what you like
But the question is who will stand
Stand and take the blame
How much longer must we wait
For you to realize
We have got to put things straight
‘Cause we’re running out of time
How much longer must we wait
For you to realize
We have got to put things straight
‘Cause we’re running out of time
How much longer must we wait
For you to realize
We have got to put things straight
‘Cause we’re running out of time
How much longer must we wait
For you to realize
We have got to put things straight
‘Cause we’re running out of time
Incidentally, Sting sang backup vocals on that song. Re-Flex left EMI shortly after the Humanication fiasco. They recorded enough songs for a third album, “Jamming The Broadcast”, but could not get a release deal. They stopped recording but never officially broke up.
In 2010, the band was able to release a box set with all of their recordings. However, in 2012, one of the original band’s members passed away and any plans for future projects were shelved.
Re-Flex had one massive song but they were more than just that one song.
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That’s all for this week, folks! Be good to each other and try to maintain the social distancing so that cases/deaths don’t spike and the easing of regulations doesn’t stop. See you next week!
Music?
Music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=istJXUJJP0g
This working at home thing has allowed me to embrace my inner Frenchman. I am starting to enjoy the smell of my own funk.
Two more weeks and you’ve got cheese!
Prolly gotta work to get to French stank status.
Needs more cigarettes.
Not me. I hit an absolute wall with that stench. Three days tops.
Brick Meathook routinely changes his socks twice a day. I might be Prussian.
That’s a gentlemen’s agreement.
I made a kick-ass stock tonight from two dead chicken carcasses. I named them Jessica and Andrea.
bitches got what was comin is what this is
Do the live carcasses impart too much salt from their dying tears?
Based on hooker experience it’s negligible.
I pay Ralphs to kill’ em for me, and cook ’em too. 2 for $10.
They died valiantly!
I was in Barcelona at the Sonar Festival and Marc Almond took the stage at around 2 AM and I was so excited that I called my buddy back in LA and started babbling like an idiot. He thought I was either drunk or high.
I was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAGyH_EYXeQ
Taint
Ed Love
Always wondered who Ed Love was.
hung out with the loser dr dre
Think there’s better places to deposit man seed.
If that song was any more 80’s I’d be stark naked and jacking off to an INXS song with a belt around my neck.
Only if you had the devil inside
Wowzers. What a finish.
I don’t know if it’s the crack cocaine or that game, but I’m feeling an adrenaline rush right now.
Whatever, just go kill someone and share the video.
Unlike some cowards around here, I’m going to find a person of means.
My person will be front page.
Cool. I am safe, so vaya con dios. (that means go kill some fuckwad)
It can be both.
And that’s all she wrote. Nice finish to the game.
The Game was a Queen album. Prolly not what you’re talking about.
DRAGON ATTACK
Huge miss!
Twice!
Charlie cooled off. But it doesn’t matter.
It’s only a 10 point margin!
Less now. Bananacakes!
I just wanted a background match, but this is full foreground material.
Down to 4!!
And there’s a terrible behind.
– all British men, all the time
Great song by a great band that couldn’t be bothered to even try to lip-synch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPgf_btTFlc
I saw Frank Black solo at the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver in 2006. This was the second most pot smoke in the air I’ve ever seen at a concert.
First? That’s right, Frank Stallone.
Led Zeppelin
when where NAME IT
Saw Page/Plant in Irvine about 1994 but not the same
May 25, 1977
Capital Centre, Landover MD
my mom drove me there and I did not have a “cool” mom
Shit that’s good Zeppelin though.
(puts on Ten Years Gone)
AFL version of What Is A Mark? in tribute to the NFL.
To be fair, he should have held tighter to that ball. Way too loosey goosey on that one.
Looking at you Dez
Katy Perry and Kacey Musgraves and I’ll throw a stiff arm at anyone trying to get between me and Musgraves.
Other than my wife and the court behind that damn restraining order.
Wife is playing Erasure in the kitchen, Gonna get pegged.
This comment really needs an exclamation point at the end.
WE’LL BE TOGETHER AGAIN!!!
Banner.
LGBTQ friendly. And that horn section is absolutely kicking ass and taking names.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RHBAd5YUR8
This is spectacular. Saying that as a too-fat-to-be-gay person.
Teh gays are really annoyingly in shape.
Yeah, damn we-care-about-what-we-look-like-jerks.
While fully acknowledging Moose’s alternate interest in this, the drummer is out of his goddamn mind on this song, in a very, very, good way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU3-lS_Gryk
That movie was fucking weird
Absolutely great live version of an otherwise OK song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XlCFJA3yL4
I didn’t know I received FS2, but, hey, cheers to some AFL.
We’ve got another one!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=IYJHBmb0hLQ&feature=emb_logo
I’m not sure who Lily Allen’s ex is, but holy fuck did she toss him under a bus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qa28ZrHPcc
Might be the perfect song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqpOBGC9864
I watched the replay of collingwood and richmond and damn, I don’t understand how that first quarter went with the rest of the game
The Geelong-Hawthorn game was awesome to watch for me.
The Brisbane-Fremantle game is pretty good so far.
Charlie is on fire.
Hell yes he is. 28 in the first half?
Shit yes.
We’re gonna lose so bad.
Shit, I just remembered someone we should have posted on the tWBS memorial sexy friday thread–
“Bad URL time stamp”
Fuck it, makes as much sense as anything else.
Operator error but maybe the mystery is the way to go
Or fuck it
Would if we could.
Oooof.
Maximum flow put to use.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP2drYGHE3E
But enough about my prom date….
Gin, Smoke, & Lies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki4VJCsF0qk
Also known as the DFO Human Resources handbook.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztibpXAryg4
Good song about drinking with your brother. Reminds me of the time my brother and I were at a party and I wound up fighting with the host, because he liked some girl who wanted to bone my brother wouldn’t stop talking to us, and out of the corner of my eye I see one of his friends running up on me until my brother ran out from the side and absolutely waffled him with a club to the head.
Good evening, fellow degenerates.
It appears that two of my friends may have drinking problems. So that’s a thing. I’m still well into the wine, mind you.
Good thing you don’t call me a friend.
My insurance premiums would go through the roof.
Two? Wow, didn’t know Pope Francis I hung out here!
Let’s go Dockers!
Fuck yeah, it’s AFL time!
I told everybody with a betting account to bet Brisbane to cover 20.
Know your team.
Oh look, he grew a beard! And it’s not Olivia Munn!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to2KasivROc
Hey, he’ll try anything to make the family not recognize him.
I know there is no way to tell based on what I am posting, all the intellectual stuff, but I am a little fucked up.
Honestly it’s more fun to imagine you doing this shit sober
Me, Moose, and maybe Brick?
Fuck everything.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kX8lqXAONg
Eh, can’t win em all
oh sure don’t even TRY tracking the plate
AFL is back!
Pancake butts…. one of the few things I’m sure most people don’t miss from the 80s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o7crsez_dQ
Huell was the best.
It is absolutely a good idea to crack one of these after getting back from the bonfire at your brothers where you were already five beers deep, because concepts like “weekends”, “calendars”, and “hangovers” are now absolutely meaningless.
oddly enough, I just fed the fish in our aquarium.
This is worse than waterboarding as it adds the extreme boredom of golf with unpredictable pain.
What are you drinking?
I relate to the frustration in this gif on a spiritual level
I, too, do not have central AC
She’s giving the look 100% of women have given me on a date.
I am so charming I only get the look 99% of the time. It doesn’t even have to be a date.
“Now”? Where the shit have you aliens been this year?
Nice jacket.
You forgot the “ing”
Jacketing……
Now that is how you end a night.
Or several nights, assuming you’re Keith Richards.
Man why can’t gws play NOW when I want to watch a sprot instead of tomorrow when ill want to pass out in the afternoon.